Episode Summary

The detectives and the district attorney get played first by the teenage murderer of a young boy, and then by the victim's father, who uses his professional expertise to escape punishment for avenging his son's death.

This whole episode is an example of BS

Nothing is right in this episode. The fact a child was portrayed as mentally ill with a mental illness that isn;'t fucking real (sociopath is not a real medical word it was a word created only to make those with mental illness look bad. No one worth their salt would use that word now) is bad enough.

But he was also only shown as a 2-d card board cut out manipulative brat(and it being incorrectly portrayed) and not an actually human being before being murdered for a mental illness he had and obviously was getting incorrect treatment for is just gross. Again sociopath is not a real medical word it was a word created only to make those with mental illness look bad. No one worth their salt would use that word now. This is just an episode that makes one feel gross and reminds people that there is ableism everywhere. moreless

Exactly.

This episode is great. there are so many turns and plot twists that you really don't know what really happened or who did what. It's fantastic! The actor who plays the young boy murderer is great. He does such a godd job atmaking you believe him and feigning his innocence. The father of the murdered boy also does a good job. This episode is definately on my list of favorite Law and Order Special Victims Unit episode. BRAVO SVU writers. BRAVO!moreless

A wonderful concert of acting, script and characters. One of the Law and Order highlights.

One of the most entertaining and impressive episodes of the series and all spin-offs for me. Superb acting makes you feel the horror of the father when he realized what the young perp had actually done and the same superb acting makes you guess till the end whether his extreme emotional disturbance was just an act or not. The final confession can be surprising, however, on the other hand, a question is raised if the system is really capable of handling such crimes. In my country a kid that commits a crime can never be tried before his/her fifteenth birthday, so we've got several killers in a juvenile detention centres who the very moment they celebrate their 18 years walk free, their records are sealed and they're regarded as though nothing had ever happened.moreless

Law and Order Special Victims Unit!

When a young boy turns up missing, the Detectives of the Special Victims Unit are called in to head the search for him. After following a false lead, they start back at square one with the time ticking. Their next step is to look into possible child molesters who may be behind the kidnapping. When they find one whose MO is similar to the way their victim Henry was snatched, they start to interrogate him for information. But what they did not expect was for him to be innocent with an unlikely suspect as the real perp.This was a good episode. You totally went along with the detectives and believe that the man who was in jail for the sexual assault of a young boy was behind it all. But what you did not expect was the twist that they threw at you when his neighbor, a teenager was the one who killed poor little Henry.moreless

One of those episodes that gives you a double feeling that you really don't know what to think.

This happens a lot in SVU, one of those episodes that your not sure what your opion is because it's so twisted and dark. A little boy gets murdered (and I'm not sure maybe molested, because Warner said to the father that he wasn't molested, but Stabler said to a pedofile that he was molested)and then it turns out this was all an act of a sociopathic thirteen year old. That boy was seriously disturbed. I can't imagine anyone who doesn't have a conscience. After learning the truth the father shoots him. He shot the boy who murdered his son, he was gonna come out at 18 and then without a doubt murder again. He also showed no sign of remorse. But was this the right thing to do? Like Novak said nobody really knows the answer to that question. As I told you before, a great episode but ik gives you a weird feeling...moreless

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ALLUSIONS (1)

This case seems to be ripped from the headlines of the Eric Smith murder case. In 1993, Eric (then 13) killed 4-year-old Derrick Robie by choking and battering him to death. Like Jake in this episode, Eric seemed to enjoy killing the boy and even went as far as to offer his "help" to the police, only to be caught when his story didn't support the facts. He was convicted of murder in the second degree.

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